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Estate Planning for Musicians and Protecting Your Legacy Off the Stage

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For musicians, estate planning is not just about deciding who inherits guitar collections or song royalties. It is about protecting your artistic legacy, ensuring your intellectual property is handled according to your...more

DarrowEverett LLP

See You on the Other Side: Planning Your Digital Legacy

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What happens to social media accounts when an individual dies? As social media is a growing source of revenue for individuals, from influencers to public figures, and the dominant means of how people document their lives, it...more

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Holland & Knight's China Practice Newsletter: September-October 2022

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China Practice Newsletter Holland & Knight invites you to read our China Practice Newsletter, in which our authors discuss pertinent Sino-American topics. The firm provides legal assistance to Chinese investors and companies...more

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Estate Planning: What Happens When Your Digital Assets Outlive You?

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During the estate planning process, it is important to ensure that your fiduciaries (the personal representatives of the estate, trustees, and agents named in the durable power of attorney) have the information necessary to...more

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

Frequently Asked Questions Regarding Online Accounts And Estate Planning

There are many factors to consider when planning your estate in the event of your incapacitation or death. While discussions regarding traditional assets are crucial in the planning process, other factors should also be taken...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Wills, Trusts & Estates: Plain and Simple – Death and Digital Assets

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Over the holidays, you or a loved one may have received some type of computer or device that connects to the internet, email and various applications. Or photos were taken and stored on such a device, or posts were made on...more

Saul Ewing LLP

Have You Forgotten to Plan for Future Management of Your Digital Assets?

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Digital assets are owned by almost everyone. Unfortunately, most of us have not planned for future management of those assets by our family....more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Death and Digital Content: Protecting Digital Assets After The Death Of A User

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In 2016, the New York Legislature enacted a version of the Uniform Law Commission’s Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act in Article 13-A (“Article 13-A”) of the Estates, Powers and Trusts Law (“EPTL”). ...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Wills, Trusts & Estates: Plain and Simple – What Happens to Social Media and Other Digital Life When You Die?

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Over the holidays, it’s likely that you or a loved one received some type of computer or device that connects to internet websites, email, and applications. Or that pictures were taken and stored on such a device, or that...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Privacy Perils: The Untimely Death of Digital Data

Many people have thoughtfully gathered information on the location of their bank accounts, deeds, lock boxes, safe combination, car title (and keys), investment accounts, check books, and other assets to make handling their...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

What Happens to your "Social Media" and other "Digital" Life when you Die?

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Over the holidays, it’s likely that you or a loved one received some type of computer or device that connects to internet websites, e-mail and applications. Or that pictures were taken and stored on such a device, or that...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

California Passes Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act

On September 24, 2016, the Governor of California approved the California Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act, which “would authorize a decedent’s personal representative or trustee to access and manage...more

Snell & Wilmer

New Law Deals With Digital Assets After Death

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In an article earlier this year we noted that at a large number of states had introduced legislation to address an emerging issue that is unique to our Information Age: how will our digital assets be accessed and used (or...more

Harris Beach Murtha PLLC

Trusts and Estates Group News: Estate Planning Enters the Digital Age

One reality of modern life is our increasing reliance on digital information and services. It’s difficult to take and then order prints of photographs, accumulate travel rewards, book travel, sort through financial records,...more

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California introduces ‘opt-in’ digital assets bill

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On June 8, 2015, it was reported that the California legislature is considering a new bill, A.B. 691, which would set forth the procedure for handling a deceased individual’s digital assets, including their social media...more

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